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Am1 5150 htpc

passey89

passey89

passey89

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Looking for a budget htpc build.

At the moment got it priced to about £80 for mobo, cpu, psu & ram already have case and cd drive.

Will the 5150 be ok at streaming 1080p ad surround sound.

Thats all its going to be doing. No gaming nothing else.

Just running kodi.
 
That will fine, I use the same CPU in my media centre linked to my amp.

My previous build was a Celeron NUC which played 1080p files fine as as-well.
 
Thought it would be.

Ordered with 2gb ram to start with and can chuck another 2gb if needed. Going to try a picopsu on payday as well if its too noisey and might get a better cooler.

How hot does the chip get streaming? Can it use a passive heatsink on it?
 
I have the 5350 in mine and can't hear the stock fan except for start up. I use a 65 w pico to power mono chip ssd 2 2tb HDDs and a slimline br player. Temps high 40s iirc. Prob get warmer with summer though
 
Cool going to be running wd 2tb hdd dvd drive for now and thats it. How do you work out how much power is needed as my usual website says it needs 130w?
 
I have the 5350 and the ASRock board with the DC input, I use a laptop charger (all be it an 80w model) and it's more than enough for an SSD and a 3TB mechanical drive.

At idle the CPU runs a touch above room ambient with the fan barely running, I doubt you'll have any issues with heat or noise.
 
Telecaster said:
I have the 5350 and the ASRock board with the DC input, I use a laptop charger (all be it an 80w model) and it's more than enough for an SSD and a 3TB mechanical drive.

At idle the CPU runs a touch above room ambient with the fan barely running, I doubt you'll have any issues with heat or noise.
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Cool. Im actually excited to get this lol. Its gonna use less power than a lightbulb lol. Just gotta let the mrs know somehow without knowing prices
 
The MSI board doesn't have a direct DC voltage input, so if you don't want to run it from a standard ATX PSU then you'll need something like the Pico PSU and a matching power brick.

General opinion is that the standard ATX PSUs don't let these low power builds sip power, from all the tests I've seen they all seem to bottom out at about 35w but when using a Pico PSU or direct DC from a laptop brick they can go much lower.
 
ok this CPU is ace. 1080p playback is perfectly fine no issues at all. Also using it as a server and downloader.

left it running all night went and check on it this morning and CPU temps were 9c. thats mad.
 
Run my 5150 pushing TS , FTP , IIS , MYSQL and it's not even stretched , even wack an asseto server for 5-6 of us on and it has no problems . My core temps are never more than 15c with HWmonitor but I'm sure it's still incorrect as I'm sure I read somewhere the algorithm AMD uses is pretty useless when the CPU isn't stressed to detect actual temps but get amazingly accurate when temps and load are at peak so to speak
 
installed core temp and changed setting in bios to 25% cpu fan speed until cpu hits 50C

its averaging about 29C streaming
 
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